MISSIONARY WORK IN NEBRASKA.
By Geo. B. Starr
Now is the time for earnest missionary labor in this State. With the opening spring, thousands of families are coming in from all parts of the world, called here by the liberal offer of free homes. These people will make permanent settlers, and coming here strangers, they will soon seek the friendship of older settlers around them. Our people should be awake to these glorious opportunities of being the first in their neighborhood to visit them, showing that they truly belong to that “peculiar people, zealous of good works.” Don’t wait and let your worldly neighbors put you to shame in this matter. Visit them as soon as they arrive, and thus win the first place in their hearts. Invite them to your homes. Supply them with tracts and reading matter, laden with earnest prayers to God for his blessing, and you will not long be keeping the Sabbath alone. Don’t wait, hoping to get a minister to give a course of lectures. Ministers are scarce, and during the summer will be laboring in the cities and towns, and were they ever so plenty they could not do the work you have neglected. “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” John 15:8. Ye,—every Seventh-day Adventist in Nebraska is included in that ye; and if we would keep our place in the message, we must bear fruit; for “every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away.” Verse 2. Sow the seed, brethren and sisters, and in due season you shall reap (precious souls) if you faint not.